Slick, Stylish, and Slightly Hollow: The Ballerina Review
Dan Kleiner “Tend to your wounds or you will get sepsis and we will have to cut off your feet.” The Ballerina is a sumptuous, globe-galloping, action-packed assassin adventure that takes place…
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The End of the Line: Cruise’s Mission Trips Over Its Own Legacy
“Just keep telling yourself it’s only pain.” Tom Cruise is known for running in his films, it’s a trope at this point. Unfortunately, Mission: Impossible- Final Reckoning limps the aged…
The Accountant 2: A Brutal, Brainy, and Surprisingly Warm Action Sequel
“The fall didn’t kill him. It was the abrupt stop.” Ben Affleck returns as Christian Wolff, the titular, autistic, Spec-Ops-qualified accountant in The Accountant 2. The Accountant 2 is an…
No Pain, No Problem: Novocaine’s Bloody Path to Love
“Everyone is hiding something. We’re all looking for someone to show it to.” Novocaine is a bleak love story. It’s another viscous and visceral black comedy, an action movie that…
Mickey 17: A Darkly Hilarious Sci-Fi Satire on Power, Exploitation, and Identity
“Imagine there’s an unknown virus in the air and you’re inhaling it with every breath.” Mickey 17 is a pitch-black comedy. Based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 science fiction novel, Mickey…
Love Hurts: A Bloody, Baffling Misfire That Even the Goonies Can’t Save
"Hiding ain't living."Love Hurts is a misconceived action vehicle for Oscar-winning star, Ke Huy Quan. It is a patchwork monster of slapped-together genres given a glitter glaze and a neon…
Dog Man Movie Review: A Fun-Filled Adventure Straight from the Comics
Brian Isaacs - Executive Editor / Publisher When a heroic police officer and his loyal K-9 partner are injured in the line of duty, an experimental surgery gives rise to an extraordinary new hero: Dog Man. With…
Fangs, Families, and Fear: WOLF MAN Reinvents the Werewolf Myth with Emotional Bite
“Sometimes when you’re a dad, you’re so afraid of your kid getting scarred that you become the one that scars them.” Though it occasionally dips into comic book movie origin…
Sonic the Hedgehog III Review: A Manic, Family-Centered Sequel That Speeds Ahead
“The light shines even though the star is gone.” Sonic the Hedgehog III is a sparkly, stylized and sometimes silly sequel to 2022’s successful Sonic the Hedgehog II. Though the…
Kraven the Hunter: A Predator Without Prey?
“I believe there is an animal in each of us, Dimitri.” The quixotic, live-action Sony Spider-Verse sputters to a close with the underwhelming Kraven the Hunter, a remarkably clichéd, poorly…